GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it intends to acquire Ireland-based FMC-Tech, a leading provider of real-time power line monitoring to accelerate the commercialization of power grid technology. FMC-Tech is one of the dozen investments resulting from GE’s 2010 ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid.

Backing today's demonstration of railway workers outside the European Parliament, GUE/NGL MEPs vowed to fight further fragmentation and liberalization of the railway sector and harmful draft proposals currently going through Parliament.

"The GUE/NGL Group fully supports the demands of the railway workers. We underline: No constraints on the right to strike! No further asset stripping of railway services!" MEP Sabine Wils said at the demonstration.

e-G8 Forum

Brussels – ETNO welcomes the inclusion of the future of the Internet on the Agenda of the G8 Heads of State in Deauville on 26-27 May, confirming the key role Internet is playing in daily lives and businesses and the need to give a global answer to the challenges that the whole industry along the digital value chain is facing. ETNO is taking part in the two-day eG8 Forum on 24-25 May hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to gather views from industry stakeholders on the future of the Internet.